Soricomorpha

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Southern Short-tailed Shrew Southern Short-tailed Shrew
style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;" | Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Soricomorpha Gregory, 1910
Families
†Nesophontidae Solenodontidae Soricidae Talpidae

The order Soricomorpha ("shrew-form") is a biological clade within the class of mammals. In previous years it formed a significant group within the former Insectivora order. However, that order was shown to be paraphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), and Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures), leaving just four families as shown here, leaving Insectivora empty and disbanded.

• ORDER SORICOMORPHA
  • Family Soricidae
    • Subfamily Crocidurinae: white-toothed shrews
    • Subfamily Soricinae: red-toothed shrews
    • Subfamily Myosoricinae: African white-toothed shrews
  • Family Talpidae: moles
    • Subfamily Scalopinae
    • Subfamily Talpinae
    • Subfamily Uropsilinae
  • Family Solenodontidae: solenodons
  • Family †Nesophontidae: West Indian shrews